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- Alan Ritchson confirmed on Threads that a Reacher season adapting Lee Child's 1998 novel Die Trying had been approved before being canceled because 'someone got re-elected'
- Die Trying, the second book in Child's Jack Reacher series, follows Reacher and a politician's daughter kidnapped by a radical militia seeking to secede from the United States
- Prime Video renewed Reacher for Season 5 back in May before Season 4 even premiered, with the new season already underway and adapting the 2015 novel Make Me, the 12th book in Child's series
- Ritchson called Die Trying 'my favorite book' in response to a Threads user lamenting the show hadn't adapted 'the book where he kills his way through a white supremacist militia camp'
- The comment follows the White House responding to Ritchson's earlier remarks implying Trump should 'go to jail' over his associations with Jeffrey Epstein
Why it matters: Ritchson just told fans they won't get the book he calls his favorite — and he's blaming politics, not programming. A streaming series skipping its lead actor's top-pick source material because of 'someone' getting re-elected turns a routine adaptation decision into a public collision between the show and its own star, with no clear resolution in sight.
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